"Medicare and Social Security are going broke chiefly because there aren't enough workers paying into the systems to support beneficiaries. Unless millions of new workers can be found to pay the payroll tax, the retirement of the baby boom generation will bust both programs."
What makes the Author think that adding more workers to pay into the system is going to solve the problem? All of these proposed payers will be payees down the line. Are we supposed to allow more illegals into the country to pay their benefits when they come due? I don't think this administration has thought this through, especially in light of the 50-49 defeat of the Ensign Bill which will allow illegals to reap the rewards of their crimes, and get amnesty for document forgery and fraud.
One of the Rats tenets for allowing the illegals to stay was that we're collecting taxes, and FICA, that will buoy up our system. Where's the benefit if they all become beneficiaries? It's a charade!
Pure insanity! We're going to "save" social security by putting millions of Illegals on the rolls who only have to pay in minimal payments for 18 months before they can collect? They'll pay in a few bucks, and then collect thousands for decades? What are these stupid Republicans smoking these days? Each idea they come up with is stupider than the last. This one takes the cake!
You've got that right derSchurfer! Adding more people to a ponzi scheme simply makes the pyramid more unstable.